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We have put together a
list of local clubs and activities that
you might like to choose from. You can get information about skiing
& donutting, swimming, ballet & dance, football, pony riding, forest
walks, karate and gymnastics & trampolining. This should kick start
your healthy lifestyle.
Healthy Eating
Cookery Club
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Children in Year 2 have enjoyed making many delicious snacks and
meals, from fruit salad to shepherd’s pie. Where possible,
ingredients are organic, local and seasonal. Many thanks to Mrs.
Mansfield and Mrs. West for running this club after school.
Gardening Club
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Children in Year 1 have enjoyed planting and growing various items,
including vegetables and herbs. They have thoroughly enjoyed getting
muddy and harvesting their produce. Many thanks again to Mrs.
Mansfield and Mrs. West for running this club after school.
Fruit and
Vegetable Scheme
The school takes part in the Surrey fruit and vegetable scheme,
where children are provided with fresh fruit or vegetables as a
snack at morning play. This has proved very popular with the
children and is certainly providing them with an extra portion of
fruit or vegetables each day.
Christmas party
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Parents provide a range of items for this party, many of which are
healthy, colourful and tasty. The beautifully arranged fresh fruit
and vegetables looked and tasted fantastic!
School meal
taster for parents
Parents were invited to sample a school lunch. Our catering service
provides healthy, balanced meals with fresh fruit and vegetables and
fresh baked bread each day. We hope that our taster sessions will
encourage more families to take up the option of school lunches.
Food Awareness
Week
The whole school took part in a food awareness week, starting on
Monday 11th June. It was a great success and included the following
activities:
- A questionnaire survey for
children all about their lunch times
- Café Lea: This was a healthy café
serving pizzas and smoothies where children were chefs,
waiters/waitresses and customers
- Each child designed their own
laminated A3 placemat, promoting a healthy balance, which they
then took home
- A visit from Waitrose: (Click
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Waitrose brought a wonderful display of fresh fruit and
vegetables, arranged according to their colour. They explained
the nutritional value of each colour group and gave samples of
unusual fruits for children to taste. It was a very interesting
and educational experience for all!
Food Group
We have established a committee of people who meet regularly to
consider all aspects of food and drink within the school. They
provide regular ‘tasty tips’ for healthy packed lunches which are
sent home to all parents and have been instrumental in the following
developments below.
Free fresh water
for all
All children have been provided with water bottles which must be
brought to school each day and kept inside the classrooms. They are
able to drink water through the day as and when they need to. We
also plan to install a new drinking fountain in the playground.
Food Policy
Parents from the food group worked together to write this policy
which covers all aspects of food and drink in school, including the
curriculum, lunchtime and safety.
Physical Activity
Developing our
School Grounds (Click
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An enthusiastic and hard working team of parents and staff have
spent two long evenings after school tidying and improving our
school grounds. Their efforts were rewarded by a feast of barbeque
food. We are lucky to have such beautiful and extensive school
grounds, ideal for promoting physical activity and imaginative play.
The new Trim
Trail (Click
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The children are delighted with the exciting new trim trail which is
now complete and in full use! There have been many fund-raising
activities to pay for this but the children will benefit enormously
from the physical activity and challenges it promotes.
New Soft Play
and Sensory Area (Click
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The children are very lucky to have this beautiful new indoor soft
play area. All children enjoy access to this fabulous resource, but
children in the school’s special needs unit benefit particularly
from the physical stimulation this equipment provides.
Display of local
clubs and activities (Click here to
link to this page of information)
We wrote to all our parents inviting them to recommend local clubs
and activities that their children enjoy. We created a display of
these, together with a local map and photographs, so that this
valuable local information could be shared within our community. The
benefits of children doing physical activities out of school are
numerous, and the extra activity will contribute towards each
child’s recommended 60 minutes physical activity each day. Although
the display in school has now been removed, the information remains
here on the school’s web site.
Survey of
out-of–school physical activities
During the early part of the Autumn Term, 2006, parents completed a
survey about clubs and physical activities their children did
out-of-school at that time. This information has provided useful
baseline information and proved to be a valuable needs assessment
tool. As a result, a special course of swimming lessons was put on
at All Hallows School, run by Farnham Swimming Club teachers.
Participants were encouraged to continue swimming lessons at the end
of the course. This course was very successful and enabled more
children to have access to swimming lessons and hopefully it will be
repeated.
Waverley and Ash
School Sports Partnership
Children from years 1 and 2 have visited All Hallows School for a
number of different and enjoyable activities. So far these have
included a biathlon competition, a rounders tournament and sports
coaching events for gifted and talented children.
Achievement
Board
A display board has been created in the school hall where
achievements in physical activity can be celebrated. There are
certificates and photographs of children for achievements in
swimming, football and many more activities. The children feel very
proud to have their achievements recognized and it encourages other
children to take part in physical activities too.
Travel Plan
We are now well on our way to having completed our School Travel
Plan. Parents completed a survey of current travel patterns together
with questions about local trouble spots. The results of this survey
have given us baseline information and a number of important points
of action to improve the safety of walking around our local area.
Golden Boot
Challenge
The school took part in the Golden Boot Challenge, a Surrey County
Council Scheme, for four weeks to encourage ‘greener’ modes of
travel to school. This was very successful and the Village of
Badshot Lea has felt very different both during the Golden Boot
Challenge and, importantly, continuing afterwards with far fewer
cars parking close to the school in the mornings and afternoons.
Walking Buses &
Park and Stride (Click
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We have been successful in our application for a grant to set up a
walking bus for our school. During the Golden Boot Challenge, we
trialled a Walking Bus and Park and Stride Scheme from the Swiftsure
car park to school. This proved very successful with more than 20
children arriving at school each morning on the walking bus and
around 10 children using it each afternoon. Many parents also used
the Swiftsure car park to park their cars away from the village
centre and then walked the remaining distance to school, benefiting
from the physical activity. Due to the success of this scheme, the
people at Swiftsure are allowing us to continue to use their car
park before and after school for park and stride on a permanent
basis and we are planning to set up walking buses from here in
September.
Scooter Park
We have purchased a scooter park to enable children to scoot to
school, leave their scooter at school during the day and scoot home
in the afternoon. This has proved very popular and the children are
benefiting from the extra physical activity scooting provides. Many
children are enjoying scooting quite long distances to school and
parents are happy that they no longer need to ride (or carry) their
children’s scooters home again in the morning and back to school in
the afternoon each day!
Personal, Social and Health Education and
Emotional Health & Well Being
(These two categories have been amalgamated here because there was a
lot of overlap between them)
School Council
From the Autumn Term, 2007, we will have an elected school council.
They will meet each week to enable the children to voice their ideas
and opinions about aspects of the school, such as playtime
activities.
Friendship Bench
(Coming soon!)
This will be a special bench in the playground where children can
sit if they feel upset and in need of friendly company. Other
children will then see them and go and talk to them.
New and up-dated
policies and Schemes of Work
The teaching staff have worked very hard to produce or up-date the
following policies. The process of policy writing is extensive,
involving consultation and training. The children will benefit from
the development of these policies, as they impact upon the
curriculum and ethos of the school.
- PSHE Schemes of work
- PSHE Policy
- Sex and Relationships Education
Policy
- Drug and Alcohol Policy
- Child Protection Policy
- Exclusion Policy
- Confidentiality Policy
- No Smoking Policy
- Visitors Policy
- SEN Policy and Inclusion
- Anti-bullying Policy
- Equal Opportunities Policy
- Race Equality Policy
- Behaviour and Rewards Policy
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